Competitors in the Sailor's Hornpipe during the 2022 Atholl Gathering Highland Games in Scotland. The Atholl Gathering and Games are held at Atholl Estates and Blair Castle in beautiful Perthshire, Scotland, on the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May each year. The Sailor's Hornpipe was originally a Celtic dance and is one of the Scottish National Dances, originally played on a hornpipe rather than bagpipes. It is also one of the few Highland Dances that has its own unique costume for competi